State crime profile · 2024

Nevada Crime Rates: Safest & Most Dangerous Cities

Crime data for 11 cities and 12 of 17 counties in Nevada (NV), ranked safest to most dangerous from 72 reporting agencies.

Data updated 2026-09-05

406.6
Violent / 100K
2,226.3
Property / 100K
11
Cities
12
Counties

Nevada violent crime is 406.6 per 100,000, 16% above the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Nevada records 406.6 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, 16% above the national average (about the 34th-safest of 51 states and D.C.). Statewide averages hide city and county variation; UCR participation is voluntary.

  • 406.6 violent crimes per 100K
  • +16% vs. the U.S. average
  • 7,378 Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department violent-crime reports, volume #1 of 5
  • 529.6/100K Reno rate #1 (volume #2)

How safe is Nevada? FBI UCR data snapshot

Nevada (NV) reported 13,286 violent crimes and 72,742 property crimes in 2024, based on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program submissions from 72 law enforcement agencies. That translates to a statewide violent crime rate of 406.6 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2226.3 per 100,000 against a reporting population of 3,267,467. The PlainCrime dataset indexes 11 Nevada cities and 12 counties, each with their own detail pages and local crime figures drawn from FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10.

The FBI's state-level summary reports violent and property crime as aggregate totals rather than broken out by individual offense type (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson). For an offense-by-offense breakdown, see the individual city and county pages for Nevada below, which draw on FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10 and do report each offense type separately.

Across 11 years of state-level UCR history (2014–2024), the violent crime rate moved from 635.1 to 406.6 per 100,000, a decline of 36%. City-level detail pages within Nevada include safety grades (A+ to F), benchmarks against national averages, per-capita risk estimates, and multi-year trend tables for users comparing specific jurisdictions. All figures above are drawn from FBI UCR 2024 submissions; reporting completeness varies by agency, and the FBI periodically restates prior-year figures as late submissions arrive.

How Nevada ranks nationally

Nevada vs. every U.S. state

Violent crime per 100,000 residents, FBI UCR 2024. Lower is safer.

407 33rd percentile among 51 U.S. states

NV 0 1,100+ every state & DC, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band of values; taller bars hold more U.S. states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · 2024

Safest cities · Most dangerous cities · Crime trends

Crime Trends

Year Population Violent Crime Rate Property Crime Rate
2024 3,267,467 13,286 406.6 72,742 2226.3
2023 3,194,176 13,911 435.5 81,954 2565.7
2022 3,177,772 14,546 457.7 76,476 2406.6
2021 3,143,991 13,536 430.5 70,617 2246.1
2020 3,138,259 14,833 472.7 63,273 2016.2
2019 3,080,156 15,268 495.7 72,111 2341.1
2018 3,034,392 17,159 565.5 74,510 2455.5
2017 2,998,039 16,655 555.5 78,663 2623.8
2016 2,940,058 19,875 676 76,165 2590.6
2015 2,890,845 20,144 696.8 77,644 2685.9
2014 2,839,099 18,031 635.1 74,931 2639.3

Cities in Nevada

Safest cities in Nevada

Cities with 25,000+ residents, lowest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Henderson is the safest sizeable city in Nevada, at 272.4 violent crimes per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Highest violent-crime cities in Nevada

Cities with 25,000+ residents, highest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Reno reports the highest big-city violent-crime rate in Nevada, at 529.6 per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department recorded 7,378 violent-crime reports (#1 of 5) at 429.8 per 100,000 (rate #2). Reno recorded 1,474 (#2) at 529.6 per 100,000 (#1). These are FBI UCR 2024 agency submissions, not a personal risk forecast.

Volume #1 is not rate #1 among Nevada cities

Violent-crime rate per 100,000 for the count leader and the rate leader among cities with 25,000+ residents, FBI UCR 2024. Each tooltip identifies the relevant rate or volume rank; chart row is not a state rank.

/100K

What this shows Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department recorded 7,378 violent-crime reports (#1 of 5) at 429.8 per 100,000 (rate #2). Reno recorded 1,474 (#2) at 529.6 per 100,000 (#1). These are FBI UCR 2024 agency submissions, not a personal risk forecast.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024
Nevada's largest cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 5 cities; the anchor is ringed. Nevada's largest cities, violent vs. property crime 245 572 Violent crime per 100K → 1,544 2,833 Property crime per 100K → Las Vegas Metro… Henderson North Las Vegas Reno SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME PROPERTY-HEAVY VIOLENT-HEAVY Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are Nevada's statewide averages · the four largest cities are labeled
Read the chart as a list
  • Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department: 430 violent, 2623 property per 100,000 (grade D)
  • Henderson: 272 violent, 1715 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • North Las Vegas: 389 violent, 1961 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Reno: 530 violent, 2445 property per 100,000 (grade D)
  • Sparks: 394 violent, 2584 property per 100,000 (grade D)
F

Nevada safety livability score: 23/100

Percentile-benchmarked against all 51 tracked states, 2024 FBI UCR data.

  • Violent crime rate

    406.6/100K · F (33th percentile)

  • Property crime rate

    2226.3/100K · F (10th percentile)

  • Murder rate

    N/A, dropped from score, weight redistributed

City Population Violent / 100K Grade
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department 1,716,565
429.8
D
Henderson 343,619
272.4
C
North Las Vegas 293,100
388.9
C
Reno 278,313
529.6
D
Sparks 110,807
394.4
D
Mesquite 23,559
123.1
A
Elko 20,861
397.9
C
Boulder City 14,800
182.4
A
Fallon 9,661
207
B
Winnemucca 8,216
693.8
F
West Wendover 4,494
845.6
F

Counties in Nevada

12 of 17 Census county-equivalents (70.6%) appear in FBI Table 10 for this vintage. Missing counties are absent from the FBI source for this year, not dropped by PlainCrime. See national county coverage and methodology.

Largest counties in Nevada, violent crime per 100K

Top 8 counties by population, violent crime per 100,000 residents. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K
Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024
Carson City
Churchill
Douglas
Elko
Eureka
Humboldt
Lander
Lyon
Mineral
Nye
Washoe
White Pine

Nationwide peers for Nevada

Similar violent rate (~406.6/100K)

Similar property rate (~2,226.3/100K)

Nearby States

Montana
MT
Nebraska
NE
New Hampshire
NH
New Jersey
NJ
New Mexico
NM

Safest cities · Most dangerous · Trends · National rankings · Crime grades · Compare · Methodology

Primary source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States annual release. State-level trends cross-check against the FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE) API.

Population figures for rate calculations reference U.S. Census Bureau estimates where FBI-reported populations are unavailable. Verify with Census.gov QuickFacts.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Put this to use

Put the Nevada FBI UCR state file to work: open a city, a county, or a national ranking built from the same vintage.

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